Schiff, Shmuel

Son of Esther and Elimelech. Shmuel was born in Transylvania on 12 March 1930 to a family of rabbis: his grandfather and father were in turn the rabbi of the town. During the Holocaust he was hidden by his mother in a hiding place in Budapest, using forged documents. His father and brother were killed in the Auschwitz death camp. After the war his mother, brother and two sisters survived. In 1947 Shmuel immigrated to Israel alone to Kibbutz Afikim. Shmuel volunteered for the Palmach, participated in the War of Independence as a combat soldier in the Harel Brigade and continued to serve in various security positions: Regional Commander in the Negev, Ravash (current security coordinator) in Moshav Beit Nakofa and training officer and operations in the Border Police in Hebron, Bethlehem and Jerusalem In 1948, at the age of eighteen, Shmuel married Rachel to the house of Tauber, and over the years they had three children, and the family lived in Beit Nekofa, where he served as a facility officer in the Jerusalem area. Securing factories, securing public institutions and securing events, such as state visits to Jerusalem Shmuel was a charismatic, charismatic person who loved a man and a book, and his family said that he was a true humanist, and therefore he was loved by all his acquaintances: women, men, commanders and soldiers. When an explosive device was discovered on B’nai B’rith Street in Jerusalem, Captain Shmuel and the paramedic, Inspector Albert Levy, were called upon to neutralize him, the explosive device exploded, and Shmuel and Albert were killed, Shmuel fell during his service and was buried at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl. A wife, three children and two grandchildren. After his fall, Shmuel was awarded the Police Service Medal by the Police Commissioner.